#reply: celeste

[withlovekimshaw]

@celestextorres​ location: willow

“I can’t just bail you out, again. I helped last time and you still haven’t paid me back for it,” Kim says in a hushed tone as she walks arm in arm with the owner of Willow. They hold the door open and Kim parts from them to enter, still talking as they head towards their office at the back. “The best I can do is help today whilst you talk with the bank again. You’re going to have to grovel. Beg. Do what you have to do, or let it go. Either way time is running out,” she keeps her tone hushed as they are no longer alone.

Watching a fellow business owner struggle with their company was never east. Kim had been there. There were always tough periods: not enough profit, bad product production, problems with deliveries, the list goes on. But Willow seemed to be drowning in problems. Thus why Kim had been in meetings for weeks trying to help her friend out, but nothing seemed to be rightening for them. She feared the worst was happening before her eyes, and she couldn’t keep helping them out whilst they dug deeper graves for themselves. 

“Go, let me look after your staff today,” she gently pushes them to the back before turning on the spot to look for said staff. Her eyes land on a beautiful young woman. She clasps her hands together, resting them against her stomach. “Now, who might you be? Your manager has parted ways with the store so I will be helping out today,” more like they were given the sack but Kim wasn’t going to vocalise that as she doesn’t know how close the staff were. Control the situation before everyone jumps ship when there’s still the chance of a life raft saving the day. “You can call me Kim.”

[dylandunsmore]

@celestextorres​ Dawson’s farm

The page of Dylan’s magazine turns as her feet kick back and forth in the air. It’s some time after lunch on the weekend and she’s found herself alone after Dawson had to rush into work. Now she could head home or go do something else but there was something about the war fireplace that left her lingering in his home. Still, boredom creeps up easily on the blonde and she’s soon rolling onto her back to play on her phone. When games offer her no relief she scrolls through her texts, several having left unanswered because she’d gotten distracted. Landing on Celeste’s name she opens their chat but instead of replying to their last chat she dials their number and puts them on speaker, leaving the device on her chest as she looks up at the ceiling.

Without a hello she starts “want to come keep me company at Dawson’s whilst he’s away and we can have a spa day? I’ve seen the bath in his guest suite and we could practically swim in it. He even has bath lotions that smell like the good stuff... if you’re free we could do mani-pedi’s and facials? There’s a fireplace in the bedroom. We can wear robes and pretend we’re at the spa - thoughts?”

[withlovekimshaw]

@celestextorres​

Kim is running behind on her schedule after being stuck on the phone with a manufacturer overseas. She was suppose to be meeting her friend as he broke the news to a specific staff member that Willow was closing. Kim had been rather impressed with Celeste on their day together and was puzzled why their potential wasn’t being used in these past five years. So that is how she finds herself darting along the roads of downtown Bradford with a couple of papers in hand, trying to catch Celeste before it was too late. Arriving at Willow it saddens her to see the ‘closed’ sign in the window in the middle of the day. She tries to the door though and finds it unlocked, she steps inside to find Celeste already there. “Oh good I didn’t miss you.”